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How extract field and value using rex?

karthi2809
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29-Mar-2023 04:56:35:PM: |CPU Utilization % Average ------- 11

 

Expected result:

11

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| rex "(?<expected>\d+)$"
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karthi2809
Builder

@ITWhisperer 

rex field=_raw "MemoryUsage %(?<MemoryUtilization>[^']+)"

MY result is

------------ 41.4

 

expected result

41.4

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If you move the goal posts by providing different examples, you can expect the solution to break. Try something like this (based on the two examples given so far!)

| rex "(?<expected>[\d\.]+)$"
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